Int. No. 639-B
By Council Members Williams, Torres, Lancman, Johnson, Wills, Gibson, Chin, Mendez, Rose, Rodriguez, Rosenthal, Menchaca, Cohen, Dromm, The Speaker (Council Member Mark-Viverito), Levine, Cumbo, Levin, Richards, Palma, Garodnick, Eugene and Lander
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to submit quarterly reports relating to the issuance of summonses
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-157 to read as follows:
§14-157 Summons report.
a. The commissioner shall submit to the council and the mayor, and post to the department’s website, within 30 days of the beginning of each quarter, a report containing the following information for the previous quarter:
1. The number of criminal summonses issued;
2. The number of civil summonses issued; and
3. Where applicable, for criminal summonses, the criteria applied pursuant to subdivision b of section 14-155 of this chapter in making the determination to issue such summonses.
b. The information required pursuant to subdivision a of this section shall be listed in total and disaggregated by:
1. offense;
2. race;
3. gender;
4. age;
5. the borough in which the summons was issued; and
6. the patrol precinct, housing police service area, and transit district in which the summons was issued.
c. The information required pursuant to subdivisions a and b for each quarter shall be stored permanently on the department’s website and shall be provided in a format that permits automated processing. Each quarterly report shall include a comparison of the current quarter to the same quarter in the prior three years, and the current year to the prior five years, where such information is available.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately, provided that the first quarterly report pursuant to section 1 is due within 30 days of the quarter beginning October 1, 2017.
BG/RC/BC
LS 2404/2014
4/27/2016